33 Slightly Annoying Struggles People With Vaginas Have To Deal With

    When there is no more toilet paper in a public bathroom and you have to drip dry.

    by Farrah Penn, Lara Parker, Maritsa Patrinos
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    1. Two words: gynecologist appointments.

    2. Like, sitting through an appointment in a thin gown with your legs spread in metal stir-ups while someone you’ve known for 5 minutes prods around inside you.

    3. FREEZING COLD SPECULUMS TOUCHING YOUR VAGINA.

    4. Pap smear swabs.

    5. ITCHING.

    6. When the sticky part of pads get stuck to our pubes.

    7. Thinking your period is over but then accidentally bleeding on a cute pair of underwear.

    8. Or bleeding on your sheets because you underestimated the first day of your period.

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    9. When you get a front wedgie.

    10. When there is no more toilet paper in a public bathroom and you have to drip dry.

    11. MOTHERFUCKING yeast infections!!!

    12. Having to sit or squat when you gotta pee instead of just being able to whip that stick out wherever.

    13. Attempting to sit through a meeting/class/lecture with a smile on your face when you’re actually in crippling pain from period cramps on the inside.

    14. And THEN being called the weaker sex by society. Yeah right.

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    15. Experiencing the magic of pregnancy and realizing you gotta shoot a baby out of your vagina hole while your partner just...watches.

    16. And then being expected to go back to work 2-3 months after we shoved an ENTIRE HUMAN out of our vaginas.

    17. Forgetting an extra tampon when you go out in public somewhere.

    18. AND ACTUALLY PAYING FOR MOTHERFUCKING TAMPONS AT A MACHINE.

    19. And THEN having to stick that cardboard applicator up into your vagina which is, you guessed it, not comfortable.

    20. Also, paying for tampons in general. That shit’s expensive.

    21. While we’re at it, paying for birth control, pads, pantyliners, pain killers, etc. once a month.

    22. Putting yourself through the pain of shaving/waxing down there because society says you should.

    23. But then saying “fuck that” and doing whatever the hell you want.

    24. When you’re getting hot and heavy with someone who doesn’t understand the concept of foreplay.

    25. And when they think sticking anything up there without ANY type of lube will be fine.

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    26. Getting your period literally the Saturday of a pool party.

    27. But on the flip side, freakin' panicking when your period is unexpectedly late.

    28. When you have discharge comin' out and you don’t know if it’s your period or something else.


    29. Inconsistent periods.

    30. Shoving a tampon up there on your period and it goes in CROOKED.

    31. Worrying about Toxic Shock Syndrome.

    32. Feeling like we have to hide our tampons, pads, signs of periods in the presence of men.


    33. And dealing with alllll of this shit on a daily basis and still being told we should smile more. :)

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